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The Report into the Grenfell Tower disaster was been published.  In all twelve volumes of exhaustive detail-  Volumes Two and Three give 240 and 194 pages of often harrowing accounts (including photographs) of people’s lives through the fire of 14th June 2017.  It is clear that the tragedy was the result of 50 years of…

Politicians need to be careful and take responsibility for the words they use-  although some are  “careful” enough to provoke a reaction (for example Nigel Farage’s hint that the police were not telling the full story about Southport- did this encourage the English Defence League-led riots?) Riots usually come from disenfranchised groups who see no…

Our discussion was on the morning of the General Election, after a campaign full of sound-bites, and a legacy of lies.  James O’Brien: “How they Broke Britain”; Michael Roberts: “Broken Britain”; Jeffrey Scheuer: “The Sound-bite Society”; Digby Anderson: “Faking it”; Nick Davies: “Flat-Earth News” and a Cardiff University Paper: “Immediacy, Convenience or Engagement? An Analysis…

Amid all the news of the UK General Election (including Nigel Farage’s late intervention in Clacton), the D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations, and the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, the Ukraine War continues.  In his book “How the West brought War to Ukraine: Understanding how the US and NATO Policies led to Crisis, War and the Risk…

Ilan Pape was a Senior Lecturer at the Middle Eastern History Department and Political Science Department of the University of Haifa, Israel, from 1984 to 2006.  Following his endorsement of the boycott of Israeli universities, he left Israel in 2007/8 to work as a Professor at the University of Exeter.  His major 2006 work “The…

Gaza today is reminiscent of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, when the Red Army stood back and allowed the Nazis to massacre the Polish Home Army- today Israel’s “allies” mouth calls for “restraint” while they arm the bombing and slaughter.  The UK shares in this with £300 million of parts manufactured in Scotland for US…

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church:  Jesus under the Rubble February 18, 2024-  Munther Isaac Is not this the fast that I choose:    to loose the bonds of injustice,    to undo the straps of the yoke,to let the oppressed go free,    and to break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)                                                                                                                                                                    Sisters and brothers                                                                                                                                      It has been more than more than 130 days since…

A Call for Repentance: An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians 20 October 2023 “Learn to do right; seek justice; defend the oppressed” (Isa 1:17). We, at the undersigned Palestinian Christian institutions and grassroots movements, grieve and lament the renewed cycle of violence in our land. As we were about…

These are the sessions we attended- a small selection of the many available in the Kirchentag (Church Congress). These Protestant meetings happen every two years, alternating with Catholic Congresses, with joint ecumenical meetings every few years. ACT OF REMEMBRANCE, Wednesday 14.00 to 15.00  at the Charterhouse Tower Ten murders were committed between September 2000 and April…

Wymington Chapel is a member of the Wesleyan Reform Union, and has a congregation of up to a dozen people.    From Easter 2021 we have been worshipping together on Sunday mornings with St Lawrence Parish Church:  on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in the month at St Lawrence at 9.30 am- these are usually…